Stuff to put in 1.09
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How about gravity-effected rings? They'd behave as though they were dropped by a player... except they don't dissapear.
That'd be great! like... You'd push a button, and a door opens on the roof, and some rings pour down on you.
The height they bounce when they drop can be decided with direction. like, if they face north, they will never stop. If they face north east/west (Depends on whether the bounce-decrease is clockwise, or counter-clockwise), They don't bounce. they just hit the floor with a smack.
Then, gravity-effected water blocks. You could choose between solid, and liquid. Liquid, if it hits the floor, will spread through the sector, untill it covers the whole sector floor. Solid won't spread out if it hits the floor. (You can still swim in solid. I just don't know what else to call it.
) With liquid, the linedef length can decide how fast the liquid spreads out.
How about that?
That'd be great! like... You'd push a button, and a door opens on the roof, and some rings pour down on you.
The height they bounce when they drop can be decided with direction. like, if they face north, they will never stop. If they face north east/west (Depends on whether the bounce-decrease is clockwise, or counter-clockwise), They don't bounce. they just hit the floor with a smack.
Then, gravity-effected water blocks. You could choose between solid, and liquid. Liquid, if it hits the floor, will spread through the sector, untill it covers the whole sector floor. Solid won't spread out if it hits the floor. (You can still swim in solid. I just don't know what else to call it.
) With liquid, the linedef length can decide how fast the liquid spreads out.How about that?
We're more likely to have floating platforms going side-to-side than that happening, IMO...
How about sector-specific weather effects?
Like, you'd have one sector raining, and one sector snowing, and another sector not raining... or snowing.
It might be possable with control linedefs/sectors.
What does IMO mean?
Like, you'd have one sector raining, and one sector snowing, and another sector not raining... or snowing.
It might be possable with control linedefs/sectors.
What does IMO mean?
That was just an example.
Someone would probebly want to make a level where you'd be climbing up some kinda mountain, and once you reach some point, it'd start raining. and at some point after that, it'd start snowing.
Or, someone would want to make a crazy level where it's snowing and raining at the same time.
One good use, would be... Y'know my Cloud Match level? I just submitted it to the contest. You know that raincloud? the one really high, in the middle, with the water in it? Being able to have it raining only under it would be useful.
I tried to make makeshift rain. Having a bunch of streams of water under it, but 1. It lagged BAD. 2. It looked wierd.
I'm sure SOMEONE would make good use of it.
Someone would probebly want to make a level where you'd be climbing up some kinda mountain, and once you reach some point, it'd start raining. and at some point after that, it'd start snowing.
Or, someone would want to make a crazy level where it's snowing and raining at the same time.
One good use, would be... Y'know my Cloud Match level? I just submitted it to the contest. You know that raincloud? the one really high, in the middle, with the water in it? Being able to have it raining only under it would be useful.
I tried to make makeshift rain. Having a bunch of streams of water under it, but 1. It lagged BAD. 2. It looked wierd.
I'm sure SOMEONE would make good use of it.
SSNTails
What part of 'RETIRED' don't you understand?
Shadow Hog said:
Nah, it seems simple enough. When the block hits the floor, it traverses all touching sectors to determine where it should spill, and the volume of the block determines by how much it spills.
You'll get your sideways moving platforms soon.... just not in SRB2.
Sideways moving platforms isn't really a bad idea. They pulled it off in Duke3D by just forcing the platform to remain within its original sector. I took heavy advantage of this effect in my level designs by making massive vehicles that moved through a level, circular columns that would crush you if you touched them, and platforms you toggled on one end then rode across to another.
The only trouble is that SRB2, just like Doom, runs off of BSP trees, right? Duke3D does not. In a 2D BSP tree you can't really make a sector move back and forth without doing some serious dynamic calculations that I don't think the Doom BSP processor was ever designed to handle...
*shrugs* Ok, scratch the moving platform/sector idea, unless you want to rebuild SRB2 to not use BSP trees... which is an idea so lame I'll probably be hunted down and killed just for sarcastically mentioning it! *runs*
--- Gemini
The only trouble is that SRB2, just like Doom, runs off of BSP trees, right? Duke3D does not. In a 2D BSP tree you can't really make a sector move back and forth without doing some serious dynamic calculations that I don't think the Doom BSP processor was ever designed to handle...
*shrugs* Ok, scratch the moving platform/sector idea, unless you want to rebuild SRB2 to not use BSP trees... which is an idea so lame I'll probably be hunted down and killed just for sarcastically mentioning it! *runs*
--- Gemini
All of a sudden, sideways-moving platforms now sounds much harder to do.
Yes, it is.
FOF floating platforms.
You can see it near the beginning of Green Flower zone act 2.
FOF floating platforms.
You can see it near the beginning of Green Flower zone act 2.
BlazeHedgehog
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I'd bring up how the floating platforms could be limited to just square MD2 models that float around, but I'll get mauled because
A) Models don't work too well yet
B) Even if models did work, they're OpenGL Exclusive for now, and OpenGL is, unfortunately, not favored
Bah. If I could only code myself. :[
A) Models don't work too well yet
B) Even if models did work, they're OpenGL Exclusive for now, and OpenGL is, unfortunately, not favored
Bah. If I could only code myself. :[
Would you make the OpenGL renderer not reboot my computer anytime I run it in a sane resolution? Not look like crap in every level that uses a colormap or a translucent wall? Not get the view stuck in walls constantly? Light the floors and walls in a way that has a smidgen of realism? Handle colormaps sanely instead of turning them clear or black for no reason?BlazeHedgehog said:
The OpenGL renderer isn't disfavored because I'm a moron. It's disfavored because it's a piece of junk. Fix those issues and I'll favor it 100%.
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